Quotes About Betrayal Of Trust Biography
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
— Immanuel Kant, Prussian geographer and philosopher (1724-1804)
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionist (1825-1895)
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due.
— Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (483-565)
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
— Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American humorist (1818-1885)
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
— Robert W. Service, American poet (1874-1958), in The Cremation of Sam McGee, 1907
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
— Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president (1809-1865)
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), religious leader (b. 1920)
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
— Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president (1743-1826), in a letter to Jeremiah Moor, 1800
Honesty is not a policy, it is a state of mind.
— Eugene LHote, philosopher
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
— Logan Pearsall Smith, American writer (1865-1946)
Frankness invites frankness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, public philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
— Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany's Third Reich (1889-1945)
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, youve got it made.
— Jean Giraudoux, French dramatist (1882-1944)
When all else fails, tell the truth.
— Donald T. Regan, American business executive, Treasury Secretary, chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan (1918-2003)
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
— Edgar J. Mohn
If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
— The Talmud
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
— Jewish proverb
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
— Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and realistic.
— John F. Kennedy, 20th-century American president (from the Yale Commencement address, 1962)
When somebody lies, somebody loses.
— Stephanie Ericsson, American writer (b. 1953)
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
— Spanish proverb
Lying can never save us from another lie.
— Vaclav Havel, Czech poet and political activist, first president of post-Communist Republic (b. 1936)
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready to call it falsehood tomorrow.
— William James, American philosopher and author (1842-1910)
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and essayist (1825-1895)
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
— Titus Livius, Roman historian and philosopher (59 BC-AD 17)
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
— Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish wit and author (1854-1900)
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
— Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish wit and author (1854-1900)
The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit (1856-1950)
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
— Unknown
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